2 Chronicles 2:18

2:18 He designated¹ 70,000 as common laborers,² 80,000 as stonecutters³ in the hills, and 3,600 as supervisors to make sure the people completed the work.⁴

2 Chronicles 3:15

3:15 In front of the temple he made two pillars which had a combined length⁵ of 52½ feet,⁶ with each having a plated capital seven and one-half feet high.⁷

2 Chronicles 4:19

4:19 Solomon also made these items for God’s temple: the gold altar, the tables on which the Bread of the Presence⁸ was kept,

2 Chronicles 9:15

9:15 King Solomon made two hundred large shields of hammered gold; 600 measures⁹ of hammered gold were used for each shield.

2 Chronicles 12:10

12:10 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard¹⁰ who protected the entrance to the royal palace.

2 Chronicles 18:10

18:10 Zedekiah son of Kenaanah made iron horns and said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘With these you will gore Syria until they are destroyed!’”

2 Chronicles 21:6

21:6 He followed in the footsteps of the kings of Israel, just as Ahab’s dynasty had done, for he married Ahab’s daughter.¹¹ He did evil in the sight of¹² the Lord.

2 Chronicles 22:4

22:4 He did evil in the sight of¹³ the Lord like Ahab’s dynasty because, after his father’s death, they¹⁴ gave him advice that led to his destruction.

2 Chronicles 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done.¹⁵ (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.)¹⁶ Yet the people were still sinning.

2 Chronicles 33:22

33:22 He did evil in the sight of¹⁷ the Lord, just like his father Manasseh had done. He offered sacrifices to all the idols his father Manasseh had made, and worshiped¹⁸ them.

2 Chronicles 36:5

Jehoiakim’s Reign

36:5 Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem.¹⁹ He did evil in the sight of²⁰ the Lord his God.

2 Chronicles 36:9

Jehoiachin’s Reign

36:9 Jehoiachin was eighteen²¹ years old when he became king, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem.²² He did evil in the sight of²³ the Lord.

¹tn Heb “made.”

²tn Heb “carriers of loads.”

³tn Or “quarry workers”; Heb “cutters” (probably referring to stonecutters).

⁴tn Heb “and thirty-six hundred [as] supervisors to compel the people to work.”

⁵sn The figure given here appears to refer to the combined length of both pillars (perhaps when laid end-to-end on the ground prior to being set up; cf. v. 17); the figure given for the height of the pillars in 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21 is half this (i.e., eighteen cubits).

⁶tc The Syriac reads “eighteen cubits” (twenty-seven feet). This apparently reflects an attempt at harmonization with 1 Kgs 7:15, 2 Kgs 25:17, and Jer 52:21.

⁷tn Heb “and he made before the house two pillars, thirty-five cubits [in] length, and the plated capital which was on its top [was] five cubits.” The significance of the measure “thirty-five cubits” (52.5 feet or 15.75 m, assuming a cubit of 18 inches) for the “length” of the pillars is uncertain. According to 1 Kgs 7:15, each pillar was eighteen cubits (27 feet or 8.1 m) high. Perhaps the measurement given here was taken with the pillars lying end-to-end on the ground before they were set up.

⁹tn Heb “the bread of the face/presence.”

¹³tn The Hebrew text has simply “600,” with no unit of measure given.

¹⁷tn Heb “runners” (also in v. 11).

²¹tn Heb “he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab did, for the daughter of Ahab was his wife.”

²²tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁵tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

²⁶tn That is, the members of Ahab’s royal house.

²⁹tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

³⁰tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”

³³tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

³⁴tn Or “served.”

³⁷map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

³⁸tn Heb “in the eyes of.”

⁴¹tc The Hebrew text reads “eight,” but some ancient textual witnesses, as well as the parallel text in 2 Kgs 24:8, have “eighteen.”

⁴²map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

⁴³tn Heb “in the eyes of.”